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The Lightning Thief Vocabulary Chapters 8-12

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  • A sense of hopelessness, or to give up.
    despair
  • To share feelings with another person; to emphasize.
    sympathize
  • To burst into flame.
    combustion
  • A large cave or chamber in a cave.
    cavern
  • A decision in a court of law, as in "guilty."
    verdict
  • To take someone's place or role by force.
    usurp
  • To grovel to authority.
    kowtow
  • Rude and disrespectful.
    impertinent
  • Speech, writing or images that lie to make people believe in an idea.
    propaganda
  • A flower with a long stem and many blooms.
    gladiola
  • To happen suddenly, without apparent cause or plan..
    spontaneous
  • Something that's just too embarrassing to talk about.
    humiliating
  • Of the sky or heavens.
    celestial
  • A deep, narrow gorge or rift in the earth.
    chasm
  • One's fate or appointed purpose.
    destiny
  • To pretend.
    feign
  • In your face; unnecessarily confrontational.
    aggressive
  • Something much longer than it is wide, or longer than expected.
    elongated
  • A symbol of medicine and the god Hermes.
    caduceus
  • Capable of being hurt or wounded, open to criticism or rejection.
    vulnerable
  • Rough, bumpy and irregular.
    gnarled
  • This creature is a spirit of nature.
    nympth
  • To breathe rapidly and ineffectively.
    hyperventilate
  • Someone who devotes him or herself to taking care of the planet.
    environmentalist
  • Holding something back or preventing free expression.
    suppression
  • An animal who can kill you with its bite is:
    venomous
  • Utter destruction.
    carnage
  • To pretend to fight or fight with non-lethal weapons.
    spar
  • A group of people traveling together.
    caravan
  • Evenly or pleasantly spaced, in sound or sequence.
    modulated